"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a narrative short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine before being included in the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. The short story is a work of gothic fiction and includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities.
RELATED BOOKS
The Happy Prince, and Other Tales
Oscar Wilde
The Waif Woman
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Ghost Pirates
William Hope Hodgson
Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Twenty-Five Ghost Stories
W. Bob Holland
The Vampyre; a Tale
John William Polidori
Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation
Joel Chandler Harris
The Lost Stradivarius
John Meade Falkner
Tradiciones peruanas
Ricardo Palma
The House of the Vampire
George Sylvester Viereck
The Doom of the Griffiths
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Fall of the House Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
The Mummy's Foot
Théophile Gautier
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
The Great God Pan
Arthur Machen
The Book of Were-Wolves
S. Baring-Gould
The Haunted and the Haunters; Or, The House and the Brain